122 THE IRON ORE DISTRICT OF EAST TEXAS 



I. Well near Mr. J. B. HalVs house, on the Glery Grillet headright. Altitude, 550 feet. 



1. Soft yellow unstratified sand 27 feet. 



2. Dark brown laminated ore . 6 feet. 



3. Coarse yellow sand 10 feet. 



4. Dark brown laminated ore. Thickness unknown. 



II Section of east side of Hynsorts Mountain, near Mineral Springs, on S. Wagley 

 headright. Altitude of hill, 572 feet. 



1. Ferruginous sandstone blocks and fragments of laminated ore lying 



on side of hill and mixed with a brown sand and gravel 50 feet. 



2. Thin layers of a slaty dark blue color 10 feet. 



3. Light blue clay and sand with streaks of iron stains and ferruginous 



matter 10 feet. 



4. Clay ironstone 4 inches. 



5. Black micaceous sand in thin laminae and containing casts of fossil 



shells 20 feet. 



6. Yellow sand 



Total 90 feet 4 inches. 



A section on the W. B. Brown headright shows the following: 



1 . Yellow sand 6 feet. 



2. Hard yellowish gray sand 19 feet. 



3. White sand, with streaks of white clay, weathering yellow and having a ten- 



dency where exposed to break into irregular blocks 46 feet. 



4. Thin layer of laminated ore 2 inches. 



5. Bright yellow clay 8 inches. 



6. Black micaceous clay 8 feet. + 



The elevation of the- upper surface of this section is about 420 feet. 

 A hill on the northern side of the E. A. Merchant headright shows a sec- 

 tion of 



1 . Dark brown unstratified sand 5 feet. 



2. Ferruginous gravel 1 foot. 



3. Stratified white and red sand and sandy clay 6 feet.+ 



Altitude of hill, 442 feet. 



On the road near Nesbitt's Spring, on the west side of the Francisco Cal- 

 villo headright, a cutting shows: 



1. Brown sand with ferruginous gravel 4 feet. 



2. Mottled sandy clay 6 feet. 



3. Stratified black clay in beds of about 2 inches 8 feet.+ 



In a cutting on the Marshall and Northwestern Railway, about a mile west 



of Marshall, the section is as follows: 



1. Surface soil of yellowish brown sand and gravel 6 inches. 



2. Red sand 1 foot 6 inches. 



3. Soft red sandstono : with patches of blue, dipping slightly to the west. . 10 feet. 



4. Sandy clay parting 2 inches. 



5. Sandstone like No. 3 3 feet. 



6. Stratified red and white sand and sandy clay 6 inches. -+- 



